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Old Postcards of Gatehouse

Postcards of old Gatehouse came into usage during the early years of the 20th Century. We have collected a few hundred of these and have presented scans of many of them here.

Below is the earliest use of a postcard in Gatehouse that we know of. It was sent from Anwoth Manse on 20th July 1901 and arrived at its destination in Montrose the following morning.

Here is a souvenir set of 10 old black and white postcards that was sold by Kirkpatrick, the Gatehouse newsagent.

Click on the cover to see these cards.

We have arranged our postcards into a number of different categories.

We would welcome comments if you think there are differences between some cards to which we might draw attention, particularly if we are showing a similar scene taken at different times. Help in dating the scenes depicted on cards would be most welcome.

Please email Graham & Margaret

Select one of the 3 categories from the list to the left and have a look around. then use your browser's back button to come back to this page.

For a small town, the shops in Gatehouse have sold a large number of postcards. At the last count we had 475 different cards (and that excludes cards with multiple subjects).